Jayvee Valencia — Software Engineer
Software, builtand hardened.
I’m Jayvee Valencia, a Software Engineer in Melbourne. Ten years building full-stack platforms in C#/.NET, React and Python across fintech, real estate and healthcare — and making them harder to break.
Melbourne, VictoriaFull-stack & AppSec.NET · React · Python · AzureEst. 2016
Nobody Asks About Debugging in Engineering Interviews
Software Engineer interviews ask about you, your projects and your stack, but never about debugging, the work that fills most of the actual job.
Every Software Engineer interview I've sat through follows roughly the same script. It opens with "tell me about yourself," moves on to the latest projects on my résumé, checks whether I fit their tech stack, and closes with a few behavioral questions about solving problems, managing conflict or taking initiative. All fair questions. But not one of them touches the thing I actually spend most of my working day doing: debugging. Continue reading
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